On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:01:49 +0200, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
I do not get well this argument. Florida is not the english wiki. It is OUR wiki. Improving our hardware situation is helping all of us. When the servers are down, we are all down. When they are up and happy, we are all happy. What is your argument to say it *help* english wikis more than others ? Explain please
The English Wikis use a greater portion of the available resources. That means the new servers would see a similar proportion of their resources used for serving up English pages.
Or, put another way, an across-the-board 10% increase in the number of pages served translates into a far larger number for the English Wikis than anyone else.
I don't really agree that it's a very good argument (after all, everybody would still see the same percentage performance increase) but it does mean that the English Wikipedia will see more absolute benefit from the new servers than anyone else.
-Bill Clark